Ilana Garon, a teacher at a public high school in the Bronx, is
no longer surprised when students tell her they have no plans to
go to college.

“The current 'college for all' trend in education is neither
economically viable nor beneficial to all students,” she writes
in a
Huffington Post editorial. “There isn't enough demand in the
market for every bachelor's degree produced at a four-year
college.”

Even college professors agree.

“All too often, college graduates incur crippling debt and don't
improve their job prospects,” Richard Vedder, a professor of
economics at Ohio University, tells
Richard Vedder at Forbes. “It is still gospel among
politicians that college education makes people better off...the
job market, though, is telling us that this is wasted effort.”

The bottom line is, choosing to go to college is an investment
and everyone should decide for themselves whether they want to
take that investment depending on their own financial situation
and career goals.